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I’ve tried to download the latest version of Spiceworks and as soon as I hit download.spiceworks.com I’m getting forwarded to OpenDNS’s blocked page.

I’m told that an “Adult site blocked” and yet the domain is correctly tagged as Software/Technology. I know my network settings are fine (I don’t have Software/Technology blocked).

Is there a spanner in the works? Is there anything I can do (apart from clearing out the block on adult sites)?

2 Spice ups
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If you are the admin for your OpenDNS settings, Whitelist the Spiceworks domain.

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Can you try downloading straight from http://download.spiceworks.com/Spiceworks.exe ?

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Thanks for posting you two.

Craig M - I did whitelist the domain. Sorry forgot to mention that one. It didn’t help.

Cole - I tried a direct link and still ended up with the error.

I’ve manged to work around the problem by using a different internet access point without using OpenDNS but I’m sure this issues prevents spiceworks updating via the desktop right click “update” option.

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Strange. This might be interesting for Spiceworks to know just in case there is something they can do about it. (Maybe someone wrote a dirty word somewhere!) I’ll PM Nic and see if he’s aware of it.

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Well, it is spicy!! Maybe they ventured into the IRC?

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What’s the url that is getting blocked?

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We aren’t blocking that URL as far as I can tell…

It doesn’t work for me, (403 Forbidden) but that has nothing to do with us.

-David

(Founder / CEO OpenDNS)

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Well I never. Tried it this morning and things are ok. The URL that was blocked was: http://download.spiceworks.com/Spiceworks.exe

Thanks to all for taking the time to help. Very weird… but then I’m having one of those weeks

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interesting. Well can you please mark a best answer so this question goes out of Spiceworks’ unanswered questions queue? Thanks!